If you're relatively new to PHP, you may have read about something called "namespacing" but not fully understood it or the benefits it provides. Over on Reddit, there's a recent discussion where the poster asks about just that:

As I understand it, Namespacing provides a lot of useful context for developers, as well as making the autoloading of classes much easier (though I've never personally tried this). I can also see it being used in a large enough application where it might help keep things in scope, but this seems like a bit of a stretch to me. Apart from that, I'm not too clear on what namespacing actually does.

The comments to the thread including things like links to otherresources and other suggestions like: